Waxing Crescent Moon
Waxing Crescent MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waxing Crescent in Capricorn

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 21% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 4 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 8 November 2075 at 11:35.

Beaver Moon after 10 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2075 after 10 days on 22 November 2075 at 14:20.

Neap tide

There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1939".

Lunation 938 / 1891

The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 938 of Meeus index or 1891 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.48 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 28 minutes and it is 17 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 16 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 53 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠316.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠316.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠337.3°.

Moon after perigee

1 day since point of perigee on 11 November 2075 at 05:25 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 27 November 2075 at 06:17 in ♋ Cancer.

Distance to Moon 363 407 km

The Moon is 363 407 km (225 811 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 14 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 361 km (251 880 mi).

Moon after descending node

1 day after descending node on 11 November 2075 at 22:42 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 25 November 2075 at 12:09 in ♋ Cancer.

Moon at southern standstill

At 07:45 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-23.417°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠23.487° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 26 November 2075 at 00:59.

Draconic month

14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 10 days

In 10 days on 22 November 2075 at 14:20 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov